Los Angeles – Long-time Best New Bands faves Allah-Las have premiered a video for “Follow You Down” from their second album, Worship The Sun, out this week on Innovative Leisure. The Los Angeles band’s album expands on the sound established by their debut, honing their fusion of West Coast garage rock and roll, Latin percussion
New York – Since the early nineties, the Madden Brothers have played in the pop punk band Good Charlotte. Their side project, The Madden Brothers, began taking shape in 2011, but it wasn’t until this week that they released Greetings From California (on Capitol). The record is a hodgepodge of radio pop, country and adult
Los Angeles – Tennessee alt-rockers Colony House recently embarked on their first headlining tour to support their recent debut album, When I Was Younger. At The Satellite in Los Angeles, lead singer Caleb Chapman told the animated crowd that they have connected with loyal fans throughout the band’s tour. While When I Was Younger didn’t
Chicago – While others are ushering in the Fall with pumpkin spice lattes and already working at piecing together Halloween costumes, Chicagoans are refusing to let go of summer. At least for one more weekend, anyway. Beginning this Friday, September 12, Chicago’s Humboldt Park will host Riot Fest and three days of music, carnivals rides,
New York – Sunday evening in Greenwich Village was a bustle of activity, the streets alive with eternal optimists hoping to keep the work week at bay, if briefly. But the weekend warriors were in luck, because the intrepid Doe Paoro was on deck to perform as a supporting act for S. Carey at Le
Los Angeles — When Karen O steps on the stage as the frontwoman for Yeah Yeah Yeahs, she is the epitome of feminine ferocity. All that power isn’t without a little glittery razzle-dazzle, grating her bowing fans with a convincing argument to live life in anarchy. Her solo debut album, Crush Songs, is far from
New York – Wisconsin’s PHOX are excited to announce that they have confirmed a run of tour dates with Paolo Nutini, followed by a string of dates with The Head and The Heart. After dazzling audiences on a largely sold-out US headlining tour this summer, this new excursion will find the band playing legendary rooms like
Chicago – Over the past month, Jesse Marchant has been surfing U.S. highways in his Audi station wagon, drifting from one city to the next, putting on a one-man show, with songs new and old. Thursday night Jesse Marchant found his way to Schubas, where an admiring Chicago audience took in his bewitching performance. The
New York – Avi Buffalo is a four-piece indie act out of Long Beach, California, founded by Avi Zahner-Isenberg back when the singer-songwriter and guitar slinger was but 19 years old. Now 23, Avi Buffalo is about to resurface with an arsenal of fully realized alt experimentalism that’s solid enough to cement this act in
New York – Soft Friday is the debut album of England’s psych-rock duo Coves. John Ridgard (he) and Beck Wood (she) wrote a thorough history of recent heartbreak for their first record. Soft Friday (Nettwerk Records) is a break-up album sung with a soft voice. There are no screaming vocals like in so many post-relationship